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COIN-TUBE.

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specification of Leiters Patent.

Patented Sept. 8, 1914.

Application filed .Tune 19,12. Serial No; 703,956.

T0 all whom t may concern Be it known that l, 'ERNST ZANDER, en

gineer, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at No. (3Tllimpfelingstrasse, of Strassburg, Alsace, kGermany, have i11- ventedcertain new and useful Improve-v ments in' Coin-Tubes, of whichthefollowing r rangement of 'cral such monc is a specification.

71th automatic vending machines for gas,

water or electricity, it has'been felt as an inconvenience, that themoney boxes which have to be opened at th customers house wereaccessible to the sta, and the control was therefore rendered moredi'iicult by embezzlements and theA like. The con/sequence `was, thatclosedbo-xes were attached to the coin-chute of these automatic -vendingmachines; -which boxes were then taken unopened te an examining station.These boxes were generally of. arectangular form, comparatively largeand the coins. lay in them widely among each other. The space requiredfor such boxes was therefore large and as two such money boxes had to beprovided for each automatic vending machine, the one of which was emptyand to be taken to the machine while the otherwas full and to be takento the station, the result was a considerable increase in work inexchang ing the boxes and a large space required both in the vendingmachinesV and in the conveying means. Besides the coins, mixed withoutany order in these boxes had to be' tediously counted and packed intorolls.

The object of the present invention is Yto simplify the collecting ofthev coins with such automatic Vending machines. A In the accompanyingdrawing a constructional form of the present invention is exemplified. v

In this drawing Figure lI is front view of theJ coin counting box shownpartly in section. Fig. la i plar view if' Fig'. l. Fig. 2 is a por ifthe mantle surface of the box, devel Fig. s

.lier-.fs the arboxes in a collecting frame. Fig. 4 is a verticalsection showing the counting tube in combination with a countingmachine.; Fig. isa

side ,View 'of Fig. 4; and Fig.'6 aiseetional plan of Fig. 4.v F ig. v7isa planyiew Aof Big. l; Fig-8 is a View of the nail to which the sealis attached.

In this drawing Fig. l, a is a tube of a circular section, the inside AdiameterA or` which is a little larger than. the coins to be used withthe respective vending machine. This tube is fitted with a bottom b anda cap c Ythe latter provided with a .slot 44 through which the coins'can fall into the tube. o and c are both detachable and are preferablysecured by means of seals'. `These seals may consist of a nail 4()passing through cap o and tube a, this nail having a head A43 and acorrugated end 44, on which is compressedl -a lead seal 4l. This tube isthen locked into the'vending machine by the collecting othcer; thespecial lock, for instance the seals, whichguards'the contents of thetube, is accessible to the managing oliicer only. The lled tubes arepreferably placed in a-honeycomb-like frame', Fig. 3, and taken in thisframe to the controlling station. This frame has cross partitions 30, 3l'forming a series of'pockets in which thetubes a, a can be placed.

The walls of the tube may also be made of perforated sheet metal-ahaving slots f as-shown in Fig'Q. This will allow of seeing the contentsof the tube and also of laying any coins which have stuck, flat on theothers with the aid of a piece of wire. If a scale c is provided on theoutside of the tube and a single row of slots f is .cut into the shellof the latter, the number of coins contained in the tube may beeasily'read. The upper end4 of thevtube a is so proportioned that afterthe removal of the cover c it can be inserted into the enlarged openinge of the tube g. This tube ,c has a sliding piece h with which it slidesbetween the rails i of the countingmachine. cut-out portions 7a in whichthe coins comiroig out of the lower opening-Z` of the tube rf arecaught.

I claim:

In a device of the character descri a cylindrical coin-collecting tubesuitable for rhesc .rails have,

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Vending machines having; an. apltued c0i1`1-recevng camp on one and, anda seem-e but removable Closure on the other end the Gap secured tu thetube; by a destluctble seal, said tube being adapted when Said cap isremoved to be inserted in M1@ Colspond ing pari; of a coin-countingmachne-

